Dress-fastener.



O. BAILEY DRESS FASTENER- APPucArlon FILED ms. 9. 1915.

l 1 98,83. 3 Patented Sept. 19, 1916.

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01mm BAILEY, or ELIZABETH, new JEitsEY, ASSIGNOR T0 EMiL BLOCH, OF NEW lYORK, N. Y.

DRESS-FASTENER.

To all whom it 'm (43 concern:

Be it known that I, 01mm BAILEY, citizen of the United States, andresident of 58 Summit road, Elizabeth, in the county of Union and Stateof New Jersey,,have invented certain new and useful' Improveinents inDress-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dress fasteners and has particular reference toan improved construction of the said fasteners.

As is well known dress fasteners are composed of two members, one ofwhich memhers is attached to a certain portion of a dress or garmentwhile the other member is attached to another portion of the saidgarment which is to be fastened to the said first portion; the said twomembers are then pressed together in order to fasten the said portionsof the garment together.. When so pressed together the two membersof thefastener are retained in closed position by means of a spring until thetension of the said spring is overcome by forcing-the said parts apart.

My inv'ention aims at providing a socket member for a dress fastener ofsimple and compact construction, the parts of which easily lendthemselves to manufacturing by mechanical means on a large scale. Furthermore, the spring which holds the two members of the fastener inclosed relation to each other is of a shape which easily lends itself tomanufacture by mechanical. means and yet has a greater resiliency thanthe springs heretofore used, while at the same time it is very muchshorter and it is possible therefore, to effect a considerable econ omyof material. Moreover, by reason of the simple and short form of thespring, the mechanism by .which the said spring is formed has a muchlonger life.

My invention is illustrated in the accom panyirig drawing.

Figure 1 of the said drawing isa plan view of my soeketmember for adress fastener; Fig-.2 is a cross-section of the same, like numbersreferring to like parts.

The said socket member is composed ofa circular disk of sheet metal 16usually formed slightly concave, the outside edge of which is spunup atright angles to the said bottom portion, 16, for the purpose of forminga rim 4. The upper extremity of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1916.

Application filed February 9, 1915. SerialNo. 6,989.

said rim is beaded over inwardly. The central part of the said bottomportion is punched upward'from below so as to-form. a hollow boss orprojection 2. Near the.

base of the saidprojection the latter is provided with two oppositelongitudinal. slots 3, 3. 'VVithinthesubstantially cup-shaped vesselthus formed there is located a spring The said spring has substantiallythe formof a U, and the extremitiesv 8 thereof are bent outwardlyinorder to form also two substantiall U-shaped end portions. The centralU-siaped part 7 of the said spring bears against the said rim 41-, andthe two U-shaped extremities of the said spring also bear against therim *l, the spring be ing held in position within the said. cup-- shapedvessel by 'means of the beaded over rim thereof. The straight portionsof the said U-shaped springs pass within the said slots 3, 3, so thatthey partially protrude into the interior of the said hollow boss or I Asocket member for a dress fastener.

comprising a substantially dish-shaped ves- Se] having a beaded-over rimand a central hollow projection, said projection being provided with twooppositely-disposed slots and a substantially U-shaped spring having theends thereof reversely bent outward, the U-shaped part. of 'the springconsisting of two portions substantially parallel to each otherthroughout their whole lengths, the said parallel portions beingpartially disposed in the said slots, the apex of the U and theextremities of the outwardly-bent ends resting against thebeaded-overrim of the said dish-shaped vessel. 1

w Signed at New York, in the county of New York; and State of New York,this 8th day'of February, A. D. 1915.

I ORRIN BAILEY.

- Witnesses:

M- J. MACDONALD, S. RYAN.

